As African Americans flocked to Northern cities in the 1920s, they created a new social and cultural landscape.

Starting in January 1920, the United States became a dry country. Prohibition banned the manufacture and sale of alcohol in an attempt to civilize unruly Americans (and some other reasons). The experiment had many unintended consequences, but most dangerously, it fostered the rise of organized crime and the American Mafia.

Police raid a garage in Chicago that contained five hundred and thirty-seven barrels of alcoholic beverage, $30,000 worth of illegal drink.

When Prohibition began, two ordinary men thought it would be fun to enforce the new law. They were right.